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Alp d'Huez. - 100% skip, its awful, like riding up Layhams but with lorry traffic, roadies wank on about it which makes it even less attractive, do Sarenne instead
Lacets de Montvernier. - Thats like a 15 min ride/climb, go up Grand Cucheron in spare time. Lunch here: https://goo.gl/maps/xhSHG6im26AD1zfM8 Just in the 'lacets' category the bit on grand colombier from culoz bangs
Col de l'Iseran - Not done this but everyone says start at val d'isere, there is a BANGING bike path next to isere river, see how far it goes from Tignes/Bourg St Maurice
Col du Télégraphe. - Just a little lump on the way to Galibier, hot chocolate/ice cream in Valloire, @pastry_bot rode this, he rates it: https://www.cycling-challenge.com/col-du-galbier-via-col-dalbanne/
Col du Galibier. - Love this, decent climb, cars can be cunty, try not to ride on a weekend.
Col de la Croix de Fer. - Got to be done from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, we made a mistake and rode from Bourg-d'Oisans, long and a little boring from that side
Cormet de Roselend - BANGS, take gravel bike and do the lap of the lake from the top of col du preTo be very honest, the unknown/alternative climbs in the alps bang much more so than the popular ones but if its your first trip, get it out of your system. I'd even go as far as and say that ride half of those but ride the main road one day and a 4x4 track next. @platypus and @fussballclub said this before my last roadie trips. This year it was my 5th or 6th trip and I finally embraced gravel, never riding road again.
This guy is god level: https://www.cycling-challenge.com/
@fussballclub @andyp @pastry_bot might add more to this, much more experience than me
This is the place to get a case of wine on the way home/there btw: https://goo.gl/maps/W3VRgxLtkpfoALo39
https://goo.gl/maps/dBmNsKkiJaas4FzF6
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Alp d'Huez. - 100% skip, its awful
https://www.cycling-challenge.com/100-cycling-climbs-better-than-alpe-dhuez/
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This god level guys site is great, did not know - reminds me of this one:
https://www.passzwang.net/en/database_cycling.php
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Madhias
I've booked our little camper on LeShuttle, heading out at the end of August & coming back just over three weeks later. Not got a huge amount of a plan yet, other than we're heading to the French alps (& possibly over Lugano at some point) & doing plenty of day rides from wherever we can stay.
Never ridden in the French alps (having stuck to the Swiss/Italian ones last time). Have created an (ambitious) map (square icons) of climbs I'd like to do (unlikely to hit them all), but it's a bit sparse so need to figure out exactly where we can stay/what we can link together. Does anyone have any recommendations of lesser known ones in the area?
List of things I'd like to do: